Money or material plays an integral part in our life No one can survive without them However, when I read the short story “The gift of the Magi” of O Henry, I realized that love is more important than these things Being rich does not mean you can buy love but if you have a real love, you have a fortune The story teaches us numerous lessons about love but for me, the most precious lesson is of all the gifts, unselfish love is the greatest In the short story, the author found that of all the gifts, the unselfish love between Jim and Della is the greatest And who find out this fact is the Magi First, both Jim and Della place the other first and are willing to sacrifice their most valuable possession for the other, without regret They want to buy a special gift on Christmas that pleases the other However, they didn’t know the intention of the other Della cut and sold her beautiful hair to have money to buy her husband a watch chain Jim sold his gold watch that handed out from his grandfather to buy his wife a set of combs, too They love the other more than love themselves Both the gifts are to increase the value of the precious treasure that the other has Nevertheless, the irony is both the expensive gifts make the other treasure worthless Della’s hair is not long enough to use those combs Jim doesn’t have the watch to combine with that chain Although they are not the perfect gifts, both realized that those gifts are not the greatest The greatest gift is their real love for each other, not for anything I like this lesson most because nowadays, most young people love for money and material They don’t realize the real value of love They value material rather than love Love is measured by money and material They suppose that he much valuable these things are, the much their love is That is a wrong notion They mistake the love of couples for loving themselves Through the love between Jim and Della, O Henry would like to tell us that there is no place for selfish love If yes, that relationship will never last long